Obama Takes On Trump In First Midterm Campaign Speech

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🗓️ 7 September 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In his first major political speech in the U.S. since leaving office, former President Barack Obama argued that Americans must rebuke President Trump at the polls this November. This episode: Congressional correspondent Scott Detrow, White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe, and national political correspondent Don Gonyea. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, this is Jemme Halvashon from Swedish Public Radio in the Straschund, Sweden, where we are preparing for one of the last local debates ahead of our general election this Sunday, after which I get to go on a well-deserved vacation.
0:14.0	This podcast was recorded at...
0:16.5	It's Friday, September 7th at 216 Eastern.
0:19.5	Things may have changed by the time you hear it.
0:22.5	Alright, here's the show.
0:27.0	Hard work in Swedes?
0:28.0	He's got that vacation coming up.
0:30.0	It's the NPR Politics podcast.
0:32.0	He's back, former president, Barack Obama is on the campaign trail attacking President Trump, and his first campaign speech ahead of the midterms.
0:40.0	People ask me, what are you going to do for the election?
0:43.0	Now the question is, what are you going to do?
0:46.0	I'm Scott Detro, I cover Congress.
0:48.0	I'm Ayeshirasco, I cover the White House.
0:50.0	And I'm Don Gagne, National Political Correspondent.
0:52.0	I forgot what it was like to cover a president who speaks very slowly.
0:57.0	I had flashbacks.
0:59.0	People tend to remember the fiery campaign mode Barack Obama, but this one was always there.
1:08.0	And that's the one that he felt was more appropriate to bring out for this, his first political speech this year.
1:14.0	More measured, more Obama the professor.
1:17.0	And this is how President Trump responded to Obama giving a really different kind of speech than I guess Trump would give.
1:26.0	I'm sorry, I watched it, but I fell asleep.
1:29.0	I found he's very good, very good for sleeping.
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